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CWA Local 9415 members in Berkeley, Calif., who work for radio station KPFA, marched back to work in late July after being locked out for more than three weeks by Pacifica Foundation, the network which owns KPFA and four other stations.

CWA members were among the tens of thousands of working people who made a stand in Seattle and sent a strong message to the international trade ministers attending the World Trade Organization meeting.

David H. Gray, assistant to Printing, Publishing and Media Workers Sector President Bill Boarman, has announced his retirement. Gray began his career as an apprentice at the Detroit News in 1956 and joined Detroit Typographical Union 18 (CWA Local 14503) in 1957.

More than 1,400 people crowded into Our Lady of Mercy Church in Rochester, N.Y. on Nov. 8 to bid farewell to widely respected labor leader Robert J. Flavin, president of Rochester, Local 1170.

After a two-year campaign by UPTE/CWA Local 9119, District 9 and the union's Public and Health Care Workers Sector, San Francisco is getting its community hospital back, the local is regaining 200 health care members, and 300 administrative employees are once again likely candidates for CWA represen